Max pain // Cboe delayed data · as of Nov 3, 6:07 AM ET

AMPX max pain

Spot (delayed)$8.5
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EVIDENCE — filed/published fact
SourceCboe delayed quote, underlying price
Fieldcurrent_price
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 3, 6:07 AM ET
HowAbout 15 minutes delayed.
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Max pain · Fri, Nov 20Not shownone strike decides it
Expected move (ATM straddle)±$1.65
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceAt-the-money straddle midpoint
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 3, 6:07 AM ET
HowCall midpoint plus put midpoint at the strike nearest spot for the 2026-11-20 expiration = 1.65 USD, 19.4% of 8.50 spot.
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±19.4% by Fri, Nov 20
Put/Call OI0.42
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourcePut open interest divided by call open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 3, 6:07 AM ET
How10,900 put contracts / 26,138 call contracts = 0.42 for the 2026-11-20 expiration. Open interest is published once a day, before the open, so it describes the previous session.
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11K puts / 26K calls
Call wall$10
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceStrike with the most call open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 3, 6:07 AM ET
How10.00 for the 2026-11-20 expiration. Open interest is published once a day, before the open, so it describes the previous session.
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largest call OI
Put wall$10
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceStrike with the most put open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 3, 6:07 AM ET
How10.00 for the 2026-11-20 expiration. Open interest is published once a day, before the open, so it describes the previous session.
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largest put OI
IV3092.2%
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EVIDENCE — filed/published fact
SourceCboe 30-day implied volatility for the underlying
Fieldiv30
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 3, 6:07 AM ET
HowAs Cboe publishes it; not computed by us.
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30-day implied vol
Net GEX+$37K
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceNet gamma exposure from Cboe greeks and open interest
As ofCboe delayed snapshot Nov 3, 6:07 AM ET
HowOver every strike with open interest for the 2026-11-20 expiration: (call gamma × call OI minus put gamma × put OI) × 100 × spot² × 1%, summed. Calls count as positive and puts as negative, a convention about who holds the other side, not a measurement.
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per 1% move · flip ≈ $5.5

Max pain is not shown: without its single heaviest strike it moves 11.8% of spot, more than the 5% we allow, so one strike decides it. Walls and gamma still print.

Event risk before this expiration: Jobs report Fri, Nov 6 · CPI release Tue, Nov 10 — macro releases historically overwhelm pinning effects; max pain reads weakest in event weeks.

Max pain levels

ExpiryMax painvs spotDTE
Fri, Nov 6$8.5+0.0%3d
Fri, Nov 13$9+5.9%10d
Fri, Nov 20one strike decides17d
Fri, Nov 27one strike decides24d
Fri, Dec 4one strike decides31d
Fri, Dec 11too thin38d
Fri, Dec 18$8-5.9%45d
Fri, Jan 15one strike decides73d
Fri, Mar 19$15+76.5%136d
Fri, Apr 16$10+17.6%164d

The writer-loss curve — where max pain comes from

Max pain is not shown: without its single heaviest strike it moves 11.8% of spot, more than the 5% we allow, so one strike decides it. Walls and gamma still print.

Open interest by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spot17.5111522294K4K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)AMPX open contracts per strike for Fri, Nov 20.

Open-interest change: building vs unwinding

Needs two observed snapshot days for this expiration; the comparison appears automatically once the next weekday snapshot lands. We diff real observations only; nothing is estimated.

Volume by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spot589101112326326
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Today's traded contracts per strike (delayed).

Implied volatility by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spot1815212835396%94%
— call IV— put IVATM ≈ 110.3% · Quoted strikes only; illiquid wings with junk fits are dropped, not smoothed.

Gamma exposure by strike · Fri, Nov 20

spotflip 5.53811.5172431+$16K−$16K
Net dealer gamma per strike, in dollars per 1% move, assuming the standard convention (dealers long calls, short puts) — an assumption, not an observation. Above the amber flip level hedging tends to dampen moves; below it, to amplify them.

Greeks by strike · Fri, Nov 20

Call ΔCall ΘStrikeΓVegaPut ΘPut Δ
0.95-0.0150.03420.00-0.01-0.05
0.93-0.015.50.04910.00-0.01-0.07
0.90-0.0160.06980.00-0.01-0.10
0.86-0.016.50.09730.00-0.01-0.14
0.80-0.0270.13060.01-0.02-0.20
0.73-0.027.50.16500.01-0.02-0.28
0.63-0.0280.19210.01-0.02-0.37
0.53-0.028.50.20460.01-0.02-0.47
0.43-0.0290.20120.01-0.02-0.57
0.35-0.029.50.18610.01-0.02-0.66
0.28-0.02100.16530.01-0.02-0.73
0.22-0.0210.50.14310.01-0.02-0.78
0.18-0.01110.12200.01-0.01-0.83
0.14-0.0111.50.10330.00-0.01-0.86
0.12-0.01120.08710.00-0.01-0.89

Quoted contract greeks from the delayed feed (not modeled here); the highlighted row is nearest to spot. Showing 15 strikes around the money — all 42 are in the CSV. Δ per $1 of underlying · Θ per day · vega per IV point.

Stacked — layer the expirations

spot17111523316K0
Call open interest per strike, stacked across the checked expirations — each color is one expiry. Strikes are pruned to the liquid center of each chain.

All expirations combined — total open interest

spot0.5610.515213035K35K
■ calls (up)■ puts (down)Every expiration combined: 198K call contracts, 82K put contracts open.

Reading this honestly

Max pain is arithmetic, not prophecy: the settle price that would minimize what option writers pay out at expiration, computed from open interest alone. Prices sometimes gravitate toward heavy strikes into expiry — dealer hedging is a real flow — but the evidence that max pain predicts settlement better than chance is mixed, and we are not going to pretend otherwise. Use it as a map of where positioning is stacked, next to the fundamentals and the earnings calendar, not as a target.

Max pain, walls and gamma print only when an expiration holds at least 100 open contracts across 5 strikes, and max pain also needs to stay within 5% of spot when its single heaviest strike is removed. Below that the expiration reads as thin rather than printing a level one trade could move.

Data: Cboe delayed public feed (~15 minutes), refreshed here about every 15 minutes. Open interest itself updates once daily, before the open. Educational information, not investment advice.

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